A sensory room is a room with a special design that provides a wide range of stimuli to help people develop and engage their senses.
These can include lights, colors, sounds, sensory soft objects, odors in a safe environment that allow the person to use them to explore and interact without risk.
Sensory rooms can help those with learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, or sensory impairments to learn to connect with the world around them, but in a safe environment that enhances their confidence and ability.
They are also called multi-sensory rooms, so that they can be presented in different ways according to the user's needs.
The dark room, as a subset of the multi-sensory environment (MSE), enhances functions in which visual, auditory, vestibular, deep, and tactile senses are often stimulated and amplified.
The dark room, as a sensory room, evaluates the child's sensory room, and based on that, we plan for the person to improve this situation.
Sensory processing disorder is found in a wide range of disorders such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and mental retardation.
Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) and / or Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a type of neurological disorder that results from the brain's inability to integrate, process, and respond to specific information received from the body's five major sensory systems. These sensory devices are responsible for detecting images, sounds, smells, tastes, temperature, pain and posture. The constant connection between brain behavior and function is called sensory integration (SI). Sensory integration provides a very important foundation for behavior and learning in one's life.
In order to treat and rehabilitate these people, a specific sensory stimulation is used, which we do exclusively based on the individual's sensory status. The dark room as a sensory room, in addition to other useful side aspects such as relaxation , And cognitive and behavioral training achieve this goal.
Benefits of a dark room:
1. Limit the senses and direct them
2. Increase the child's attention to visual and auditory stimuli
3. Improve your child's sense of self and understanding of the body
4. Occupy different types of attention separately: selective attention selective attention shifting attention and split attention divided attention attention
5. Improve eye exploration skills and increase visual acuity
6. A quiet space to reduce the child's anxiety and fear
7. Increased perception of depth in the child
8. Increase visual memory
9. Improve eye-hand coordination, visual tracking
10. Teaching cognitive concepts
11. Reduce the child's resistance to learning
12. Reduce the child's resistance to the new environment
13. Increase child interaction and improve social relationships
14.Different parts of the dark room
Bubble Tubes
It is an essential element in the sensory set and uses a bubble column, a variable light and color illuminator that can be adjusted by a remote control.
Application:
The light and movement of the Babylon tube bubble improves and strengthens attention and concentration
The movement of the bubbles strengthens the eye chase
The change in the colors of the Babylon tube extends and maintains attention
Improve and evaluate vision
Strengthen social skills due to the circular atmosphere
Strengthen cognitive skills of concepts such as the concept of color and so on
Enhance and increase eye contact through the mirror.
Infinity Tunnel
This tunnel is reinforced with infinite light that evokes a deep sense in the person.
The child can focus and pay attention to the light for many minutes away from environmental stimuli. Using a simple key corresponding to each color, the remote control changes its light. It is completely safe and secure. Easily mounted on the wall or table.
Optical fiber
A great way to increase focus, focus, and cognitive learning is to improve interaction through group games on fiber optic flexibility. The safety advantage is the lack of electricity in the fibers and the lack of heat of the filaments. Fast and slow working people are able to move the filaments based on their sensory needs and the distance of the filaments from the face. This tool has a great effect in reducing anxiety and fear. Fiber optics creates an attractive space for the child that he has not experienced before. It also allows the child to distance himself from the noisy environment of the world around him, even for a few minutes, without anyone's eyes looking at how he is acting and judging him quickly. That is what most parents show. In this method of treatment, the clients are allowed to experience a situation in which each of their senses or skills and disabilities are examined separately (separately) and gradually and are in the process of improvement. Part of the exercises used in this Space can be transferred to parents.
INTRACTIVE POWER CUBES
The goal is to understand cause and effect, to recognize colors and motor skills. This device encourages physical movements including (catching, bending and throwing) and ultimately an attractive way of interacting with the environment.
Sensory room light projector
The projector for the dark room, without illuminating the room, turns on the objects and equipment that the child is interested in playing and learning with, and causes him to focus and focus on things that he has not been able to do before. The equipment used in this room should have a phosphor color that has the best reflection of red light at a certain wavelength coming from the surface projector.
All the equipment that the child is entertained with in this room is displayed in a very bright and shiny color in the colors that attract the most attention.
With special powders that shine under the projector light, it is the best tool for recognizing fingers, etc., and with it, it can maximize its genius and creativity in painting on different surfaces, such as mirrors, and a greater understanding of perception of sight and touch. Find yourself.
